Son stabs dad to death during Zoom meeting

Witnesses to a fatal stabbing weren’t able to notify authorities on a 911 call because they had no clue of its location when viewing virtually, say police.

Twenty people watched a Long Island man stab his father to death while the two were in the midst of a Zoom meeting, Suffolk County Police said.

Dwight Powers, 72, was participating in a Zoom meeting at his Amityville home when son, 32-year-old Thomas Scully-Powers, came into the frame and fatally stabbed him, police say.

“People thought he might have been attacked,” a police spokesman said. “They noted him fall off the screen and then they heard heavy breathing.”

Police say a number of people at the virtual gathering quickly called 911, but the response by officials was delayed when nobody could identify where Powers lived.

Scully-Powers jumped out of a window to flee the scene, but was later apprehended, say authorities.

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